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- doughnutstracksLots of shady missile deals went down in West Asia/North Africa in the 60/70s. Somewhat related: Israel was collaborating with Iran on missile projects but allegedly planned to deceive them by providing outdated missiles while using Iranian funds to develop superior versions for themselves [0].[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Project_Flower
- ecshaferThe wonderful book "Rise and Kill First" is a history of Israeli assassinations, with their policy of going after the "head of the snake". There are some interesting sections on how Israel used assassination to inhibit missile programs in the Middle East, including Egypt. Its a pretty easy read despite being long.
- firefaxIt's easy to throw stones, but who among us hasn't lost a key missile scientist at some point or another?
- somatRelated? the Helwan HA-300. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helwan_HA-300Summary: Egypt was going to develop an indigenous fighter in the 1960's based off of a mostly finished Spanish design by a post WWII otherwise unemployed Willy Messerschmitt.I First heard of the project via a pretty good youtube documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqIpJuqvsWQ Messerschmitt's Remarkably Good Supersonic Fighter (Not A Pound For Air To Ground)
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- tzuryUse Google Translate or llm to translate the content in this urlhttps://www.intelligence.org.il/?module=articles&item_id=16&...
- r721Reminded me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Alexandrov#Disappeara...
- pseudohadamardIf you want an interesting related story that's so incredible people wouldn't believe if it was a film plot, look up Otrag. Not the Wikipedia page, that only tells a fraction of the full story. There's a documentary floating around somewhere about their work in Zaire under Mobutu before they started building ballistic missiles for Gaddafi.
- WhereIsTheTruthEveryone already knows who did it and whyThe US acts as god, it can't tolerate any nation outpacing it, you are allowed to be a client state, never a sovereign one with your own currency, your own defense industry and your own energy independenceSee also:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassinations_of_Iranian_nucl...And in current era:https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-scientists-have-been-dying-...Suffice to say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_dinar
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- metalmanChina built secret research citys that were essential hermeticly sealed, down to growing there own food, and these days have built such a secureity focused comunication system that any attempts to recruit asassins is going to require money and infuence that doesn't exist, as internaly all of those functions are arms of the state. Over and over China demonstrates it's dedication to there only rule: dont mess with the brand. During the first round of the Hormuz crisis, China parked two ships right in the middle of the action, one which is the worlds largest and most powerfull signals intelligence data processing ships, and the other a very large brand new missle cruiser, and then three weeks ago China delivered to Iran a pre agreed upon shipment of brand new MANPADS. It gets worse as Russia and Iran have demonstrated high acuracy manouverable hypersonic missles, and that there a drones everywhere. The drones are worse in that they are unatributable, perfect false/no flag weapons of terror, murder and mayhem. So, you know, here we go, into what I call "whatever this is", where our technologys are rapidly approaching the limits imposed by universal laws, but we are still the same bunch of cheating ,lying, scheeming, steeling, murdering, monkeys.